Child Poverty and Local Area Agreements LAAs: next steps Which indicators? What data? Will Morlidge GOEM.

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Child Poverty and Local Area Agreements LAAs: next steps Which indicators? What data? Will Morlidge GOEM

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LAAs: next steps Refresh to be completed by LAA partners and GOs by March 2009 (ministerial sign-off April) Issues to be resolved: –Reward: guidance expected by Christmas –Indicators: eg KS3, perception of ASB –Targetry: Whitehall and GOs are working on their negotiating briefs –Data: collection and/or quality assurance of many datasets underway

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Which indicators? (1) NIS includes baskets of indicators which: –can impact on your area of work –might be affected by your work –underpin a delivery plan when taken together Various approaches: –SETF, DCSF, GOEM – policy driven –GOL, CLG – statistically driven

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Which indicators? (2) From DCSF, GOEM, GOL and CLG models: 71 NIs identified, 4 were common: 102 Achievement gap between FSM pupils and peers achieving at Key Stages 2 and 4 106 Young people from low income backgrounds progressing to higher education 116 Proportion of children in poverty (workless households) 118 Take up of formal childcare by low-income working families

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Which indicators? (5) Take up of 116 (1), 118 (1 local), 102 (0) and 106 (0) Attainment, TP and NEET are well covered Reliant on less strongly related NIs (eg NI1 is in 8) But broadly similar to national picture (bar London)

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Which indicators? (6) For consideration: Which are impacts of CP and which does CP impact on? Are CIC being accidentally screened out? No link to ASB, drugs or crime Weak linkages to indicators on adult social exclusion Child Poverty Unit to lead further work